Hello Universe, will bring excitement and adventure to your common core literacy lessons. Students will practice summarization skills, recalling details, and inference skills. This literature guide has follow-up reading response questions for every

This project is a great way to review for the final exam! Your class will become film producers during each timeline movie pitch. Students will signup for a WWII topic out of the 35 given for the project. They will spend several days researching the

Granted, helps you bring magic to your common core literacy lessons. Students will practice summarization skills, recalling details, and inference skills. This literature guide has follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fifteen years' teaching experience in middle and high school. Instructed Advanced Placement (AP) world history, international relations, psychology, sociology students and middle school ELA.

MY TEACHING STYLE

While in college, I was assigned a paper to analyze Homer’s "The Iliad and The Odyssey". The idea seemed daunting and oozed agony to me. My dread led me to the library to discover that George Lucas based Star Wars on Joseph Campbell’s writing. Campbell believed that all myths follow a pattern that reveals the hero’s journey.
My paper was written in record time by showing the similarities in the adventures taken by Luke Skywalker and Odysseus. Further explaining how we were all on a hero’s journey in life, we use myths to help us navigate and move into different stages in our lives. When I received the paper back it read A- with the comment, “Strange but Creative.” The message was clear; diverging from the status quo is “strange.” Shame made me shove the paper quickly into my backpack so nobody would see the professor’s comment.
This experience shaped who I became as a teacher. It is important for me to bring creativity into my teaching. My lesson plans will bring excitement and magic into any classroom.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Led student poetry publication of “We Hear You, American Kids’ Reflections on Darfur”. Garnered attention of civil rights and social justice leaders, including Maya Angelou who wrote the foreword to the book, Generated publication proceeds used to fund Darfur’s School of Peace.
https://www.amazon.com/Hear-American-Kids-Reflections-Darfur/dp/0979675006

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

MST, Master of Science, Teaching, Education, State University of New York
BA, Bachelor of Arts, Theatre, College of Charleston
Education Certification – early to middle grades; middle to higher grades social sciences

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

My mission is to help teachers bring excitement and joy into every lesson.